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2answers
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Diffuse light direction

I'm learning a tutorial from Rastertek about diffuse light with DX 11, here's the shader code: float4 LightPixelShader(PixelInputType input) : SV_TARGET { float4 textureColor; float3 ...
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2answers
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Handle many lights in a scene (with shaders)

I'm curious about how to handle many lights in a scene. Given a very big map in a role playing game, with dungeons (with lights in there) etc. I know about deferred lighting, but that only answers how ...
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1answer
264 views

Materials when rendering geometry

When specifying the material (ambient/diffuse/specular) for use in lighting calculations, what level of detail is the material specified at? Per vertex, mesh, bone?
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3answers
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Common light map practices

My scene consists of individual meshes. At the moment each mesh has its associated light map texture, I was able to implement the light mapping using these many small textures. 1) Of course, I want ...